Non-slipping shoe.



H. R. WISEMAN.

NON-SLIPPING SHOE.

,APPLICATION FILED Novum. 190s.

9.818,52?. Patented Apr. 4, 1911.

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UNITE` STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HALDON R. WISEMAN, OF TURLOCK, CALIFORNIA.

NON-SLIPPING SHOE.

Application filed November 27, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HALDoN R. VismiAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Turlock, in the county of Stanislaus and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Slipi penters, shinglemen, lumbermen and all persons engaged in occupations wherein they are continually walking on smooth or slippery surfaces, the object of the invention `being to produce a shoe which will prevent the wearer from slipping and falling thus preventing him from being injured.

A further object of the invention is to produce a means which will prevent shoes mused by sliinglers from wearing out as quickly as they now do by reason of the fact that a shingler at work always has one foot,

, usually the left, dragging on its side which action rapidly wears the same out.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple, inexpensive and yet eective device for the purposes described.

These objects I accomplish by means of metal plates secured to the bottom of the sole and heel of the shoe, such plates having projecting teeth or serrations adaptedv to grip or bite into the surface on which the wearer may be and thus prevent him from slipping, such ,metal plates also having projecting tongues turned up at one side of the shoe to prevent the leather of the shoe from rubbing on the surface and wearing out at that point. Also such other and further construction and relative arrangement of parts are employed as will more fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The figure of the drawing is a perspective view of a shoe showing my complete device installed thereon.

Referring now more particularly to t-he characters of reference on the drawings l Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. et, 1911.

serial No. 464,789.

designates a shoe and 2 and 3 are metal plates shaped to conform to the shape of the heel and sole respectively of the slice. Such plates have teeth l cut therefrom and bent downwardly at right angles to said plates and are provided with sharpened edges as at 5. Such teeth project transversely across said plates and also follow the side periphery of the same thus preventing the wearer from slipping in any direction.

On one side of the plate 3 are tongues 6 bent in the opposite direction from the teeth 4l: and projecting up over the side of the shoe l to prevent the leather of the shoe from rubbing against any other surface and thus becoming worn. Such tongues (3 having upper orifices 7 into which may be riveted an auxiliary piece of leather, or other suitable material, 8 which leather extends over the side of the shoe and is interlaced with the laces of the shoe as shown in the drawings, which structure presents an auxiliary wearing surface thus preventing wear upon t-he shoe proper.

One of the aims of my invention is to construct tlie teeth 4; so that they can be cheaply and easily cut with a die, hence I make the teeth by cutting out metal on each side as shown by the polygonal orifices 9 which pci'- mit the adjacent teeth to be formed and bent easily, as is apparent.

The plates 2 and 3 are secured to the shoes by means of small screws 10 disposed through orifices 11 and into the shoe or by any other suitable means.

I have also found that for use by firemen in lighting fires, my device is unexcelled.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced a device for use on shoes, which is of great value to shinglers, carpenters and lumbermeninasmuch as it greatly reduces the liability of injury due to slipping and likewise prevents wear of the shoes.

1While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A device of the character described coinprising the combination of a shoe having laces, a plate, a plurality of transverse slots out in said plate, upturned teeth disposed vided with eyelets, the laeings of said shoe 1( along the edges of said slots, said teeth being being interwoven through said eyelets as deg beveled from their bases upward and spaced scribed.

apart at the bases and beveled at their top In testimony whereof I afliX my signature edges, similar teeth upturned on the outer in presence of two witnesses.

edge of said plate, projecting tongues turn- HALDON R. WISEMAN.

ing from the edge of the plate in opposite l /Vitnesses: direction to that of said teeth, and an auXil- PERCY S. WEBSTER, iary plate secured to said tongues and pro- FRANK H. CARTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by' addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

